Adam Ritz, University of Victoria
6/20/2007

Title: "Probing new CP-odd thresholds with electric dipole moments"

Abstract:
Electric dipole moments (EDMs) of nucleons, ions, atoms and molecules, 
represent some of our most powerful probes of new physics, and new sources 
of CP-violation in particular. I will discuss the theoretical 
link between observable EDMs and new high-scale CP-odd sources, within the 
general framework of effective field theory, and also the ensuing 
sensitivity to models of new CP-violating physics. As examples, 
new dimension-five operators in the MSSM, and a new Higgs-sector threshold 
allowing for electroweak baryogenesis, will be discussed.